Focus
The Wrong Way to Listen to Music?
In defence of philistinism.
Recent Publications in Irish Traditional Music
Listings from the Irish Traditional Music ArchiveContinued from JMI July-August 2005CDS PUBLISHED 2005Clann Lir, vocal & instrumental group, Clann Lir, Fund for Development of Traditional Culture TF001CD. From RussiaDeegan, Dicky, uilleann pipes, Music...
Recent Publications in Contemporary Music
Listings from the Contemporary Music CentreContinued from JMI July-August 2005NEW WORKS RECIEVED JUNE–JULY 2005Ball, Derek, Douceur sur douceur sur douceur [2005], rec cl va; The Tuba Gauge [2005], tuba; Buckley, Linda, jöklar [2005], pf; Moonsick...
A First for Roscommon
Irish Traditional Flute Music.
Comhthéacs Nua do Cheol na hÉireann
Bob Quinn's Atlantean theory.
Where do we go from here?
Music schools, the IAMS and music education in Ireland.
Location: Ghetto or Niche?
'Concert hall versus everywhere else'.
Aloys Fleischmann and the idea of an Irish Composer
Debates about the ‘Irishness’ of a composer’s music are not new in Ireland. The subject often occuppied Aloys Fleischmann, particularly as a young man in the 1930s. Séamas de Barra traces the development of his ideas and his early compositional style...
Looking for the Irish Bartók
The ‘Irish Bartók’ question has been around for decades, but is there still some value in the concept? Composer David Flynn argues that there is, and that now is the time for a new engagement by Irish composers with Irish traditional music and musicians.